The Early History of Greed: The Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature
By Richard Newhauser (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) The history of avarice as the deadliest vice in western Europe has been said to begin in earnest only with the rise of capitalism or, earlier, the rise of a money economy. In this first full-length study of the early history of greed, Richard Newhauser shows that avaritia, the … Continued